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Tajikistan’s economic growth is projected to moderate in 2023, as geopolitical uncertainty remains high, says the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to slow to 5. asiaplustj.info »
A delegation of entrepreneurs from Russia’s Altai Krai will arrive in Tajikistan on April 10 on a four-day visit to discuss with representatives of the Tajik business community state and prospects of further expansion of the mutually beneficial cooperation, get acquainted with business and investment climate in Tajikistan and seek business partners, according to the Chamber of Commerce asiaplustj.info »
One more microcredit deposit organization, MDO Shukr Moliya, has opened in Dushanbe. According to press reels issues by the organization, its official opening ceremony took place in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district on the eve of the Navrouz holiday. asiaplustj.info »
The Taliban has claimed arresting a member of the Islamic State – Khurasan Province (IS-K) who was involved in plotting several deadly attacks, including the one, which killed Taliban governor in Balkh and attacks against Shiites, Kabul Now reported on April 4. asiaplustj.info »
Staff negotiations to discuss issues related to organizing and conducting joint military exercises this year took place at the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) United Staff on March 28-30. asiaplustj.info »
On April 1, President Emomali Rahmon met with 100 orphans from the cities of Khujand, Konibodom, and Isfara as wells Spitamen district at the Somon Plaza shopping, service and residential complex in Khujand and presented them with Navrouz gifts, says the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
On April 1, President Emomali Rahmon participated in an officially ceremony of introducing a polypropylene (PP) bag production plant into operation in the Sughd Free Economic Zone (FEZ Sughd), according to the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
On April 1, President Emomali Rahmon participated in an official opening ceremony of the shopping, service and residential complex, called Somon Plaza, in Khujand, the capital of Sughd province, according to the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
President Emomali Rahmon, who is currently on his working visit to the northern province of Sughd, yesterday participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the second line of the metallurgical plant in the Tajikistan-China industrial zone in the city of Istiqlol (formerly Taboshar). asiaplustj.info »
The Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) International Bank of Tajikistan (IBT) has opened one more banking service center in Danghara district, Khatlon province. The IBT press center says an official opening ceremony of this baking service center that took place on February 28 was attended by Mr. asiaplustj.info »
Федеральная служба безопасности РФ объявила о задержании в Екатеринбурге гражданина США, корреспондента The Wall Street Journal Эвана Гершковича, подозреваемого в шпионаже. asiaplustj.info »
A two-day investment forum of Tajikistan and The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) took place in London on March 28-29. Representatives of relevant government bodies of Tajikistan and as well as entrepreneurs of the two countries working in the fields of energy, production, service delivery, logistics and pharmaceutics reportedly participated in the event. asiaplustj.info »
Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdimuhamedow is expected to arrive in Dushanbe on a state visit in the first half of April. According to the Tajik president’s press service, the visit is scheduled for April 10-11. asiaplustj.info »
In a statement delivered at the 13th session of the Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament), Tajik Prosecutor-General Yusuf Rahmon revealed on March 18 that 97 alleged criminals, including 18 criminals charged with committing terrorism and extremism crimes, were extradited to Tajikistan in 2022, the Prosecutor-General’s Office’s official website says . asiaplustj.info »
The Government of Tajikistan has instructed relevant ministries to speed up the process of the establishment of production of electric vehicles inside the country. It is also instructed to take necessary measures to promote electrification of the country’s public transportation and launch an infrastructure for electric transport. asiaplustj.info »
Matiullah Wesa of the Pen Path NGO that travels across Afghanistan with a mobile school and library has been arrested in Kabul, says UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNMA). The United Nations says a prominent Afghan girls’ education activist has been arrested in Kabul and called on Taliban authorities to clarify the reason for his detention. asiaplustj.info »
President Emomali Rahmon began his four-day working visit to the northern province of Sughd today morning. The city of Guliston is the first leg of Rahmon’s visit to northern Tajikistan. While in the city, the head of state participated in official opening ceremonies of two poultry farms, according to the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
Water is fundamental to human development and easy access to clean drinking water, along with toilets and information on hygiene, reduces diseases, enables girls in particular to attend latrine-equipped schools, and saves women and children from queuing for and carrying water for on average 90 minutes per day, says a press release issued by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) on March 24. asiaplustj.info »
The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) has presented at the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York five solutions that should help streamline the regulation of the water and energy complex in Central Asia. asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s news agency TASS , citing a report posted on Twitter of the General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI), the Afghan national intelligence, security and spy agency under the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, reported on March 27 that the GDI claims that nationals of Tajikistan were involved in a suicide attack in Mazar-e Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh asiaplustj.info »
Some members of the State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament) have supported the proposal to grant migration amnesty to part of labor migrants, who were deported for violation of the migration legislation. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik authorities plan to increase significantly electricity production within the next five years through the use of renewable energy resources. The Government of Tajikistan on March 1, 2023 approved the renewable energy program designed for 2023-2027. asiaplustj.info »
Nikolai Podguzov, Chairman of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) Management Board, says the EDB is ready to invest at least 400 million US dollars in Central Asia’s water and energy complex The Eurasian Development Bank plans to invest not less than 400 million US dollars in Central Asia’s water and energy complex over the next three years, Nikolai Podguzov, Chairman of the EDB asiaplustj.info »
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon met with the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Mrs. Catherine Russell in New York on March 24 on the sidelines of the United Nations Water Conference – 2023, according to the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
In statement delivered at the closing ceremony of the UN 2023 Water Conference, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon noted on March 24 that it is necessary to radically change the way they understand, value and manage water. asiaplustj.info »
Two powerful earthquakes hit Tajikistan on March 21 and 23. The March 23 damaged hundreds of houses and killed more than 100 sheep and cattle, according to the emergencies Committee under the Government of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
By Government’s regulation a land plot in Shugnan district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) has been allotted to the Ministry of Defense for construction of training ground. Under this regulation, a land plot of a total area of 1,075. asiaplustj.info »
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes involving accusations that Russia has forcibly taken Ukrainian children. asiaplustj.info »
Oxus Interasia FZCO (Free Zone Company) plans to build a tobacco factory in the Tajik southern province of Khatlon. The enterprise is expected to be built in the Danghara Free Economic Zone (FEZ Danghara). asiaplustj.info »
Ibrahim Mammadov (Azerbaijan), Research Fellow at the Caucasian Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies (QAFSAM), notes in an article for CABAR.asia that the establishment of a regional platform for cooperation on energy related matters would ensure a more efficient allocation of the resources and increase the value of the internal regional trade in the Central Asian region. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first two months of this year, twenty-three countries of the world provided 6. 730. 5 million US dollars’ worth of 2,413. 5 tons of humanitarian aid to Tajikistan, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Британский журнал The Economist составил Индекс геополитических союзников России, поддерживающих тесные отношения с Россией. Узбекистан занял в нём последнее, 12-е место, сообщает Озодлик. Данные, которые собрало издание о дипломатических, военных и экономических действиях разных стран, «показывают не столь однозначную картину». asiaplustj.info »
Over the first two months of this year, Tajikistan has earned more than 6. 8 million U. S. dollars from the electricity exports, which is nearly 32 percent, or 1. 6 million US dollars, more compared to January-February last year and 1. asiaplustj.info »
In January-February this year, inflation in Tajikistan’s consumer goods has stood at 0. 9 percent, which is 0. 2 percent higher compared to the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first two months of this year, Tajikistan’s external trade turnover amounted to 1. 018. 4 billion U. S. dollars, which is 10. 9 percent, or 124. 71 million US dollars, less than in the same period last year. asiaplustj.info »
On Monday March 13, a delegation of Tajik entrepreneurs met in the Russian city Lipetsk with senior representatives of Russian company Forsazh LLC to discuss issues related to launching joint venture on producing fuels and lubricants in the Tajik northern province of Sughd, the press center of the Lipetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) said on March 13. asiaplustj.info »
POLITICO reported on March 13 that three source confirmed that the European Union is working on a law that would force nongovernmental groups, consultancies and academic institutions to disclose any non-EU funding as part of a crackdown on foreign influence in the bloc. asiaplustj.info »
Russian media reports say the Russian authorities plan to extend the work patent term for labor migrants up to three years Interfax notes that the Interior Ministry has agreed with the proposal of the Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights Boris Titov to extend the term of a work patent for labor migrants up to three years. asiaplustj.info »
One person was killed and at least four others were injured Sunday as Thursday as a truck went into oncoming traffic in Varzob district, the Interior Ministry’s official website reported on March 14. asiaplustj.info »
A groundbreaking ceremony for construction of a cross-border market at the Uzbek-Tajik border in Uzbekistan’s Fergana region took place on March 13. asiaplustj.info »
The National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT) has extended the operating license of the state-run insurance company Tojiksughurta for the next five years Tajik financial regulator says Tojiksughurta’s operating license was extended for another five-year period on March 7, 2023. asiaplustj.info »
On Monday March 13, outgoing Pakistani Ambassador to Tajikistan Imran Haidar met here with Tajik Deputy Foreign Minister Farhod Sailim at the end of his tenure to Tajikistan. The Tajik MFA information department says that during the meeting, the parties expressed satisfaction with the achieved level of mutually beneficial relations between the two countries. asiaplustj.info »
The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) presented the latest issue of the Macroeconomic Review for its six member states on March 13. The Macroeconomic Review is a regular publication by the EDB, which provides a snapshot of the macroeconomic situation and projects short-term developments in its member countries. asiaplustj.info »
A bill raising the age of conscription into Russia's army has been submitted for consideration to the State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament). Under the bill, the draft age will rise in 2026 to 21 years of age from the current 18 years of age. asiaplustj.info »
The detained freelance journalist Khurshed Fozilov is charged with calls for forcible changes to the constitutional order in Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
On Monday March 13, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon received the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary-general Imangali Tasmagambetov, who arrived in Dushanbe on a working visit. According to the Tajik president’s official website, Rahmon congratulated Tasmagambetov on his appointment as the CSTO Secretary-General and wished him success in his work. asiaplustj.info »
The Aga Khan Development Network notes that the University of Central Asia (UCA)’s School for the Advancement of Gender Equality (SAGE) provides training and a peer support platform for organizations, activists and others working in gender equality and advocacy. asiaplustj.info »
Officers of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS)’s office in Khatlon province jointly with border guards have prevented an attempt by Afghan drug dealers to smuggle a large consignment of narcotic drug out of Afghanistan into Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
REN TV says law enforcement officers in the Russian oblast of Samara are searching for a Tajik national who escaped from the settlement colony in the city of Tolyatti. The incident reportedly took place on March 9 and escape of the prisoner was discovered after midnight. asiaplustj.info »
On Saturday March 11, Prime Minister Qohir Rasoulzoda visited a number of districts in the Kulob region of the southern province of Khatlon. The state-run news agency Khovar says the main purpose of the visit was for the prime minister to get acquainted with operation of pumping stations and rehabilitation of flood protection embankment in the area. asiaplustj.info »
